Word: soiling
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...conventions of Western culture, starting with the idea of beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...
...river's edge, and most of the time it has. But many environmentalists believe that, over the years, the corps's attempts to control the Mississippi have backfired. Left to its own devices, a flooding river spreads horizontally, filling its natural floodplain and enriching it with fertile, alluvial soil. Along the Mississippi, however, this pattern of natural flow has been increasingly blocked by a patchwork of levees...
Nowhere are these effects more dramatic than in the Mississippi Delta, which used to be replenished every year with rich alluvial deposits. Now the soil, laden with nutrients, is carried by the river, bypasses the Delta and falls into the Gulf of Mexico, where it is contributing to algae blooms and threatening the fisheries. The Delta is sinking, with the result that the levees keeping the river at bay have to be periodically raised...
...extratropical cyclone -- a blizzard with hurricane- strength winds that blanketed parts of North Carolina with 50 in. of snow. In early winter, some Southwest cities got a year's supply of rain in six weeks. A record number of tornadoes (1,381 in all) touched down on U.S. soil last year, as well as the nation's costliest weather disaster, Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed $20 billion worth of property in Florida alone...
...detention had nothing to do with terrorism. Attorney General Janet Reno determined that there was insufficient evidence linking Abdel Rahman to the bomb plots, and she clung to that stand despite reports that the FBI had taped the sheik saying "American blood must be spilled on its own soil." (That, said one of the sheik's allies, was just "Arabic hyperbole -- good Arabic, bad English...